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Recent Examples of Synonyms for Renaissance men
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Private Money, Public Breakthroughs To call Saad Bhamla and his seven co-recipients polymaths is more than flattery.—
John Drake, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
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Their brains are dramatically different in size, structure, and function.—
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The skin, guts, and brains are the same but made of different things.—
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Should be a fascinating account from one of our most important public intellectuals.—
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The City of Lights became a refuge for Black artists and intellectuals, if not an uncomplicated one.—
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The story of astronomy begins not with satellites or space probes, but with ancient thinkers who dared to look up and wonder.—
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The biggest barrier to educating informed critical thinkers isn’t the culture wars.—
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When other stars wore suits and naked gowns; these style savants slipped into outfits that were decidedly more polarizing.—
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All these young punks and musical savants appearing under the repressive atmosphere of the academy may require some suspension of disbelief (as does Lilisa’s gravity-defying hair).—
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Who were the ad wizards who came up with that one?—
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Whatever uncanny floating effect Henson’s wizards put on that baby has freaked me out for decades.—
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Around that are various sages, including a Cleveland sage, along with California sagebrush and California buckwheat.—
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The various sages from each of Hyrule’s different races (Gerudo, Goron, Rito, and Zora) all have affecting backstories and differ substantially from their descendants, whom players know intimately from Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom.—
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